All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE)     Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658. (CVE-2019-10782)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE)
    Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658. (CVE-2019-10782)

Security researchers from Snyk discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-9658 was incomplete. Checkstyle, a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard, was still vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.9-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your checkstyle packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258699	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-10782	Nessus	Misc.	medium
423351	SCA: security update for com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle (GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
423351	SCA: security update for com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle (GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
133654	Debian DLA-2099-1 : checkstyle security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2019-10782

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Tenable Plugins

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